ART + ARCHITECTURE
PAPER AND ARCHIVAL OBSESSIONS
There appears to be an almost fetishlike obsession with paper and archives
this year. Mr. Comer attempted to
explain the appeal, “Now that we have
access to more archival material, we
are all preoccupied with how we can
reanimate it and create living histories.”
Often archival-based works simply
present an organized mass of archival
material as content, and it appears this
curatorial misstep is evident in duo Valerie Snobeck and Catherine Sullivan’s
installation based on a Chicago anthropologist’s obsession with airline menus.
However, the archival based work by
Public Collectors on the aforementioned
Malachi poster by Mecca
Normal guitarist David Lester.
Malachi Richter is riveting. Semiotext(e),
the independent publisher for theoryinfatuated intelligentsia, is presenting
a series of small books for the Biennial.
Foucault, anyone? Also on view are the
vitrined spiral notebooks writer David
Foster Wallace (whose 2008 suicide
also casts him with the Cult of the
Dead above) kept while working on
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